.NET C# convert ResourceSet to JSON

Question

I would like to create a JSON object from a Resource File (.resx). I converted it to a ResouceSet as such:

ResourceSet resourceSet = MyResourceClass.ResourceManager.GetResourceSet(CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture, true, true);

I now have a set of objects in the form {Key:<key>, Value:<value>} but would instead like to convert it to JSON in the form or a hash map {Key:Value, ...}.

Answer 1

Since ResourceSet is an old collection class (HashTable) and uses DictionaryEntry, you need to convert the resourceSet to a Dictionary<string, string> and use Json.Net to serialize it:

resourceSet.Cast<DictionaryEntry>()
           .ToDictionary(x => x.Key.ToString(),
                         x => x.Value.ToString());

var jsonString = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(resourceSet);